After unveiling the new GeForce GTX 980 and GTX 970 graphics cards, and finally releasing Grid streaming, what could Nvidia possibly have left to reveal at CES 2015?
Apparently, a very powerful mobile chip. Dubbed the Tegra X1, the processor is super energy efficient while also packing enough power to run a desktop.
Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang dubbed it a “superchip,” and it is rather impressive. The Tegra X1 counts 256 Maxwell GPU cores, an eight-core 64-bit CPU and 4K video capabilities at 60Hz.
Huang said the Tegra X1 is energy efficient thanks to its Maxwell roots, but it can also run state of the art engines that any desktop computer or current-gen console can. Thanks to the Tegra X1, Unreal Engine 4 could run on a mobile device, Huang said.
The new chipset features the first GPU with FP16 and is, according to Huang, the first mobile processor to reach the one teraflop summit.
The question is, what to do with all those flops?
Drive time
Huang moved from mobile processors to mobile in the traditional sense by introducing Drive CX, a digital cockpit computer.
The Drive CX demo was a flashy 3D rendering of maps, gauges, and an …read more
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